NGC 1360

NGC 1360 is the name of a planetary nebula in the constellation Fornax. NGC 1360 has a brightness of 9.4 mag and an angular extent of 11.0 '× 7.5 '. The planetary nebula is one of the objects with the most independent explorers: The Erstbeobachtung succeeded Lewis Swift in 1859, however, he published this observation in 1885, so that the astronomer Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Temple (1861 ), Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (1868 ) and. Eugen Block (1879 ) found the object independently and described.

NGC 1360 is an approximately 350 pc distant, extended planetary nebula without clear-cut envelope shape. Its envelope shape can be described by a prolate ellipsoid with a major axis twice the length, and has an angle of 60 ° relative to the line of sight. In the mist a kinematic age of about 10,000 years has been designated and a density of less than 130 hydrogen atoms per cubic centimeter. This suggests that already the mist dissolves and begins to mix with the insterstellaren matter.